The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-07
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must always be admitted to probate.
Burlington Free Press: We pity deaf
persons. They have to have great many
close calls.
A troupe of Persian female dancers, the
best ever seen IN Teheran, are now en-
route to Paris.
New Haven News: A Fighter of wrongs
is, as rule, even more poorly paid than q
writer of poetry.
Harper's Bazaar: When girl is little
she has doll baby; when she grows up
she has dolman.l
Lord Eversley, aged 90, recently shot
eight head of game, including a brace and
half of cartridges and brace of pleas
ants.
The Epoch: Presence of mind is well
enough in some cases, but when a man
finds himselfin danger of freezing to death
he shouldn't try to keep too cool.
Harper's Bazaar: Mrs. NouYeau Ito de-
parting guest GOOD night, Mr.. Augur.
had begun to think you had gone and that
we had missed the pleasure of saying good
bye to you.
The first translation into English of
Hebrew novel will shortly appear.
France first discovered that there were
Hebrew novels worth translating, and has
had them for some years.
One thousand two hundred and forty
divorces were granted in France in 1885,
the first year of the existence of the di-
vorce law in France. 1t must be under
stood, though, that in many cases it was a
transformation of DEGREES of separation
into those of divorce. The last twelve
months produce ASS PArisians divorced,
the most being in the rich quarters.
An Orange Heights, Fla, woman turned
her horse out in the pasture the other at
ternoon, and was looking at it as it fed,
when it disappeared right before her eyes.
When she reached the place where the ami
NAL had stood she found that the earth
had sunk eight feet from the surface. The
horse was got out none the worse for the
adventure, but why the earth gave way has
not yet been explained.
A remarkable specimen of graveyard
taste has Just been received in MeDosha,
destined for the cemetery there: 1t is q
sixteen-ton stone in the form of tree,
with birds and squirrels in its branches,
/ ferns at its base, also large cross, pot of
stone flowers, an open book and roll of
music. By somg oversight the cabinet
organ was omitted. The stone was made
for the grave OF a young woman.
! STeddy Wicks, London barber, who re-
Gently bet SO that he could shave fifty
! persons in sixty minutes, succeeded in
shaving seventy-three in fity-nine min
utes and fifty-seven seconds. He went
over the faces of twenty-on in the first
/ fifteen minutes, fourteen in tbs second
quarter, nineteen in the third, and twenty
| three in the last. Now another barber
wants to bet that he can beat this record.
Two well diggers in Washington town
ship, Ia, found at a depth of fourteen
feet white walnuts (hickorY nutsl well
| preserved, and as they dug down collected
| about half bushel. Then they came
upon log of wood and a pair OF deer
| horns, which were soft, but soon hardened.
/ The well was dug in timbered country,
but there is not hickory tree in toe
! county.
A few weeks ago woman at Elk Rsnids
! Mieh.i sold TO rsgman a rebel hsg that
/ had oee1i in her garnet for twenty years.
She didn't know what it was. The ped
dler took it to a neighboring town and ex-
bore the word Nashville, and is thought
TO have belonged to the blockade runner
of that name. Fhe peddler offered to sell
it tor So, but there were no buyers,
A North Carolinian, recently returned
from Japan, says that IN a few years the
japanese will be the greatest railroad
builders in the world. He bases his judg
ment on the fact that the japanese are
great patrons of railroads. Even when
| they have no business to transact they
| ride back and forth on the cars until theil
money is gone, even the. beggars in the
large towns spending their :uQney in this
| curious way.
Wanted-Lodgings by b. a. AdTer-
tiser wishes il clearly understood that none
need apply who object on principle to fall
| in with his not excessive requirements,
/ which inclnde-1st, punctuality in serving
meals; ID moderate quiet in house; Sd,
/ dry toast thrice daily: 4th, Joints to be
roasted mot bakedl and chops and steaks
TO be grilled mot fried); 9Th, the free use
of 8 latch key and 9th, the absence OF a
cat" This advertisement appeared ia a
country newspaper IN England.
The Dallas Times doesn't like the the
ology of the cowboy evangelist who is
| wrestling with the Texas sinners, and
/ takes him to task for saying that hell Is
| full Of Complexities and Methods s." II
says: "Come out of that, cowboy Come
up out of the depths OF such bsrbarism
| Preach good will; preach love; preach
hope Put away tbs instruments of tor.
tore; fill up YOUR awful chasm of ever
/ burning fire. Hush the shrieks of lost
souls and lullaby into quiet the mosns OF
| the damned. Preach heaven; preach that
| there is a place where preachers. cowboys
| Complexities, Methodists, Baptists, all
| may reach IL the great and pleasant road
of justice and love and fair play to man
is allowed here on earth,